After a good breakfast cooked
by Gracie aunty, I left for CILA. It’s about 15 minutes to walk from where I stay during the course. I got there by 9:30 and filled in my name, address, qualification and
contact number in a paper they gave me. Oxford Tefl will be sending my
Cert.TESOL certificate to the address I put here.
The office
staff directed me to the TESOL class room. David, one of the tutors, had
started taking the first session. There were 4 candidates in the room, Krishnan,
Komal, Anu and Lisa. So it will be 5 of us doing Cert.TESOL in January. David
let me in and I took a seat in the class. It was an air-conditioned, fully
furnished, bright class room. David is from Canada and he was so friendly and made us really comfortable.
David handled
the morning session up to 12:20pm. The session included getting to know each
other at first where we go near the board and introduce ourselves and answering
the audiences’ questions. He gave us the
5 weeks’ time table and guided us through it for a while. Later he made us in
to two groups; a group he’ll be training for the coming two weeks and the next
group will get the training of Helen (another tutor) for the same amount of
time. After two weeks we will switch the tutors. Anu and I are in the group of
Helen and the rest of us in David’s. Helen will train us how to deal with the advanced
learners and David with basic ones.
David explained the necessity
of learning students’ needs before you go and take and English lesson for them.
He explained ways to get that done before we start our teaching practices in
the coming days. He said tomorrow we’ll get to see how David and Helen teach
students as they’ll be teaching by having us as ‘observers’. This is a great
idea to make us prepare for our lessons in the coming days.
I had brought lunch from ‘home’
(I’ll be calling the house I’m staying ‘home’ from now on). So we had it at the
lunch time, which was from 12:30 to 1:30.
The afternoon session was by
Helen, another tutor, and it was all about describing all the stuff we will
have to do as the course progresses. With her sense of humor we were enjoying every words she would say in her pure British accent (She's from England by the way). She explained the complete modules of the
course and what we are expected to do. She said she’ll be giving us a French class
tomorrow in order to make us realize what a student feels in a foreign language
learning class. Later, we were asked to
talk to IELTS students at CILA to know their needs by learning English. We also
had to find out their language backgrounds. I talked to a group of 5 or 6
students and finished my task. The first day is OOWVA!
Looking forward to the guided observation
session and the French class tomorrow!
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